Combined paper-holder



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C. DE V03. a GOMBI-NED PAPER HOLDER, GALENDAL' AND BLOTTER. N0. 291,499. H I Patented Jan. 8, 1 884 wood.

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CORNELIUS DE VOS, OF BATTLECREEK, MICHIGAN.

COMBINED PAPER-HOLDER,

CALENDAR, AND BLOTTEIR.

SPECIFICATION forming part f Letters Patent No. 291,499, dated January 8, 1884.

Application flied March 24, 1883. (No model.)

To all whom, it may concern,

Be it known that I, CoRNELIUs DE Vos, of Battle Creek, in the county of Calhoun and State of Michigan, have invented a Paper- Holder, Blotter-Carrier, and Calendar Combined, of which the following is a specification.

The object of my invention is to facilitate letter-writing and office business.

It consists in forming, arranging, and combining with a base or tablet a spring-clasp, a hinged blotter holder and carrier, and a perpetual calendar, as hereinafter fully set forth.

Figure l of my accompanying drawings is a perspective view of my complete device. Fig. 2 is an enlarged perspective view of the clasp and paper-holder, the calendar, anda section of the tablet. Fig. 3 is a longitudinal section, and Fig. 4. a transverse section, of Fig. 2. Jointly considered, these figures clearly illustrate the construction andoperation of my complete invention.

A represents the base-piece, in the form of a tablet, that is preferably made of stiff pa, per-board. It may vary in size as desired, and can be covered with cloth, leather, or any suitable book-cover material. A

Bis a blotter holder and carrier, that is also preferably made of paper-board and suitably covered. i

C C are common paper clips or fasteners, stuck through the paper-board B near its ends in such a manner that their ends can be readily bent over the ends of one or more sheets, D, of bibulous paper blotters, as clearly shown in Fig. 1. The board B is shorter than the base or tablet A and hinged to one of the edges of the tablet by means of a flexible strap, similar to the manner in which two sections of a book-cover are connected. I

E represents a spring'clasp (preferably made of springwire) of common form, fixed to the top and center of the tablet A by means of rivets, or in any suitable way.

G is a rectangular block, preferably made of It has a section cut out from its center to adapt it to receive and retain the clasp E, fixed to the block and tablet in such a manner that sheets of paper, when placed upon the tablet and under. the spring-clasp and holder that projects below the block, will be brought square relative to the tablet by abutting against the fixed block and a wooden bar,

month printed thereon.

a is a veneer cover fixed on the top of r the block. It has a slot, 1', through which the figures on the slide m are visible. At the slde of this slot, and in regular spaces corresponding with the size of the numbered spaces on the slide m, the names of the days of a calendar week are printed or fixed upon the surface of the cover a. On the opposite side of the slot in the cover a, I print or fix the following rhyme:

Thirty days has September,

April, J une, and November;

All the rest have thirty-one, Except the second month alone,

To which we twenty-eight assign, Till leap-year gives it twenty-nine.

In the'practical use of my invention I place a number of letter-sheets squarely upon the tablet, and under the spring-clasp and holder, and one or more blottersheets in the hinged blotter holder and carrier, and when I have written upon the surface lettersheet I turn the hinged blotter-carrier upon it to bring the first day of each month printed at the side of the slide and then move it one space each succeeding day of the month, so as to indicate the name and number of each day in the month during the passage of the month.

I am aware that blotters have been hinged to tablets; but my manner of forming a blotter-holder to adapt it for detachably connecting sheets of bibulous paper therewith at pleasure, and combining it with a paper-holding tablet provided with a head-block and side bar, within which to fold the blotter-holder upon sheets. of writing-paper abuttingsquare,

1y against the block and side bar, is novel and advantageous. Y

I 'am also aware that blocks and clasps have been fixed to the ends of tablets, and that a sliding calendar-card has been moved in a base having a sight-opening to make the figures on the cards visible in succession; but my manner of forming a head-block adapted to receive a sliding calendar-card and combining it with a paper-holding clip and tablet is novel and advantageous.

I claim as my invention- 1. The hinged blotter holder and carrier B, having paper-fastening devices 0 C, in combination'with the base or tablet A, having a block, G, and spring-clasp E at its top end, and abar, G atits side, substantially as shown and described, for the purposes specified.

2. As an improved article of manufacture, the combined tablet, blotter, and calendar, composed of the base A, hinged blotter and carrier B O O, the spring-clasp E, the block -G, having a channel in its top, side, and center, the adjustable slide m, anda cover, We, having a slot, r, substantially as shown and described, for the purposes specified.

CORNELIUS DE VOS. \Vitnesses: JOHN DE Vos,

OHAs-L. PALMER. 

